J.B. Spins

It miight be the most censored film of all time. Yet, it might also be one of the “banned films” that has been least defended by ostensive c...

Are these mallrats a cult or a coven? Which would be worse? Or is there really a difference? And   where do they still have malls? Apparentl...

About all the only thing Harriet spared her children was wire-hanger trauma. Indeed, the damage done while she stood by, watching disinteres...

This will sort of be like The Breakfast Club for Sloane Price and some of her classmates, except instead of learning to understand each othe...

In America, small towns are friendly and welcoming. Not in England (and particularly not the Cotswolds). That’s basically why we have folk h...

Mickey considers Solvieg a healer. The locals call her a witch. This is not a case of potato-potahto. Viewers can tell from some of the flas...

Anyone who knows anything about horror movies understands only bad things happen at summer camp. That is just as true for Camp Almar in this...

It wasn't just My Bloody Valentine . In the horror genre, gas masks typically provide killers anonymity rather than save lives. This se...

It seems like stupid horror movie characters never manage to overcome the monsters stalking them. Fifteen-year-old Max is a notable exceptio...

Maybe all those martinis are not so good for a secret agent, even if they are stirred and not shaken. Retired spy John Dimon had more than h...

You would think Algernon Blackwood would be the BBC’s favorite ghost story writer, since he worked for the broadcaster in the late 1930s. In...

If MacGyver and Rube Goldberg started a sewing circle, they would invite Barbara Duggen to join them. She can do almost anything with a need...

The Carmichael Manor is so notoriously haunted, even bottom-feeding reality TV crews stopped coming. Henceforth, no more found footage for t...

If you put dumb people in a smart house, it reverts back to being dumb again. The same is true for movies. It turns out Alice’s late estrang...

Most anthology films are like trick-or-treats bags on Halloween night. There’s always a lot of stale candy corn mixed in with the candy bars...

Babysitting is one of the most dangerous professions in cinema, but it somewhat counter-intuitively has a high survival rate, thanks to “fin...

This is slasher horror, but it obviously brings to mind some of Stephen King’s greatest hits. Think of it as Children of the Corn , with Pen...

The original Creature from the Black Lagoon was found in the Brazilian Amazon. That is a long way from a tiny South Pacific island, but the ...

The Cold River Motel is more notorious than the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles or the Stanley in Colorado, so, naturally a small group of true c...

Most people think weddings and births are good things, but spooky old Peig warns her new Galic-speaking home-care nurse, as transitional jun...